The 1000 Pound Asshole in the Room
Optics carry a lot of weight, the eyes pull the images in first before the brain can run the calculations. Throw in some good or bad timing and you are either sky high or augering in. Let’s look at some really bad optics sprinkled with equally bad timing. The current posterboy for all of this […]
March 2nd, 2022Poking Around the Universe Gives Me the Heebie Jeebies
As if things aren’t bizarre enough. Wait. Let’s talk about the 14,300 pound telescope in the room, more accurately in outer space. The James Webb Space Telescope was launched on December 25th of last year, right there I’m worried. Did they have to shoot it off on Jesus’s birthday? In a few months if everything […]
January 27th, 2022Useless Information
For Christmas as a stocking stuffer I got a book titled: The Totally Awesome Book of Useless Information. As I flipped through it I thought, yes it is fairly useless but it is f-u-n to see some of this nonsense on paper. I will now share with you some of the info that’s listed that […]
January 6th, 2022The Second British Invasion
As far as I’m concerned good lighting and good timing are everything in life and the recently released Beatles’ documentary Get Back checks both of those boxes nicely among many other things. The film’s resolution is outstanding for being over 50 years old. However that happened, whether it was filmed that way or director Peter […]
December 14th, 2021A Deep Dive Into Hammacher Schlemmer
In my previous blog, I strolled through the holiday edition of the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog. On the cover, it stated that it’s America’s longest-running catalog going back to 1848. Yes, 173 years of selling what it guarantees are the best, the only, and the unexpected items. So I thought I’d speculate here what they might […]
November 18th, 2021
